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edited Jan 20, 2015 at 23:35

I don't think you can suppress the total in the multi-argument form.

The simplest way I can think of is to stick to the one-argument form, when needed:

if [ $#"$#" -lt 5 ]
then
    for f in $@;"$@"; do wc -l $f;-- "$f"; done >>$1>>"$1"
else
    wc -l $@"$@" >> $1"$1"
fi

I don't think you can suppress the total in the multi-argument form.

The simplest way I can think of is to stick to the one-argument form, when needed:

if [ $# -lt 5 ]
then
    for f in $@; do wc -l $f; done >>$1
else
    wc -l $@ >> $1
fi

I don't think you can suppress the total in the multi-argument form.

The simplest way I can think of is to stick to the one-argument form, when needed:

if [ "$#" -lt 5 ]
then
    for f in "$@"; do wc -l -- "$f"; done >>"$1"
else
    wc -l "$@" >> "$1"
fi

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answered Jan 20, 2015 at 22:32

I don't think you can suppress the total in the multi-argument form.

The simplest way I can think of is to stick to the one-argument form, when needed:

if [ $# -lt 5 ]
then
    for f in $@; do wc -l $f; done >>$1
else
    wc -l $@ >> $1
fi